Operator at DuPont's new silicon plant at Brevard, North Carolina 'picking' silicon needles. This method of inspection helps maintain high purity standards of DuPont silicon. The material, a non metallic element, is used in such devices as...

Oven drying of silicon at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. In this process, silicon needles are dried after a demineralized water wash. The Brevard plant has an annual capacity of 70,000 pounds of silicon a year. Silicon of ultra high...

Hyper pure silicon product of DuPont research, is packaged in a double thickness polyethylene and then inserted in metal containers before shipment from the company's new plant. Extreme care is taken in packaging silicon to guard against...

This picture shows silicon and what researchers expect it to do. The pure element, in the form manufactured by DuPont, is below the ruler. Before it can be used it must be melted down to a solid mass, as at lower left and traces of other elements...

This is one pound of pure silicon crystal as manufactured by the DuPont Company's Pigments Department at Newport, Delaware. The hand gives some comparison for size. When melted down-the next step in the manufacture-this will make almost a cupful of...

This physical research chemist at DuPont's Experimental Station is using an analog computer to determine temperature characteristics of a bar of silicon undergoing refinement by the floating zone technique which involves gradual moving of the...

Chemist in a DuPont Company laboratory measures out a pound of pure silicon as produced in the company's small pilot unit. DuPont is continuing research on the production process but since the company is not in the electronics business, the...

Chemist in a DuPont Company laboratory measures out a pound of pure silicon as produced in the company's small pilot unit. DuPont is continuing research on the production process but since the company is not in the electronics business, the...

Since dust would contaminate the silicon, finishing areas at the Newport plant of the DuPont Company are kept hospital clean and works wear white surgical gowns, white hats and handle the material only with spotless white gloved hands. Here a...

Crystalline aggregates of silicon look somewhat like short rough jack straws. The DuPont Company manufactures silicon as a pure element in this form. In this photo, as indicated by the short ruler, the 'spikes' appear about twice their actual size.

Crystalline aggregates of silicon look somewhat like short rough jack straws. The DuPont Company manufactures silicon as a pure element in this form. In this photo, as indicated by the short ruler, the 'spikes' appear about twice their actual size.

Float zone refining of silicon at DuPont's Pigments Sales Service Laboaroty at Chesnut Run. This technique is used to remove inpurities, meausred in part per nillion in this extremely pur product. Tiny s;livers of silcon are used as semicondtucros...

Before it is shipped to the customer from the Newport, Delaware plant of DuPont's Pigments Department, each individual piece of 'dense' silicon is individually inspected. Impurities are removed to the point where remaining quantities are too minute...

The nation's first full scale plant for the manufacture of hyper pure silicon constructed by the DuPont Company at Brevard, North Carolina. Silicon, developed by the DuPont for use in radar during Worked War II, is a vital raw material in the...

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